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situation cries out for a new Darwin of the mind, 

 who shall break the persistent spell of theoretical 

 problems incapable of scientific solution, the ideal 

 of a logical and methodical exactness greater 

 than our subject in its present stage permits of, 

 which Aristotle well dubbed pedantry, and re- 

 mand the haunting problem of the ultimate 

 nature of consciousness and the final goal of the 

 psyche to the same limbo, by suspending convic- 

 tions, as those of the constitution or cause of 

 energy and the nature of reality and objectivity. 

 Ordy by so doing can we again get up against the 

 essential facts of life as it is lived out by the toil- 

 ing, struggling men, women, and children, nor- 

 mal and defective, of our day. If this rough 

 diagnosis of the present situation is correct, only 

 a pessimist can doubt that the need will, ere long, 

 bring the man or the men to meet it in the only 

 way it can be met, viz., by a comprehensive evo- 

 lutionary synthesis in the psychological domain, 

 which by every token seems at present to impend. 



